Price-marking tag



Nov. 4, 1930. F. KOHNLE PRICE MARKING TAG Filed Jzgn. 6, 192

awvwvboz m Patented Nov. 4, 1930 UNITED STATES FREDERICK KOHNLE, DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIG NOR TO" MONARCH MARKING- TEM COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A'CORPORATION OF OHIO SYS- PRICE-MARKING- TAG: 1

Application filed January 6, 195 23 Serial No. i245pl2 In this type of tag the attaching means comprises a soft metal wire in the form of a hook clip extending from one edge of the tag to receive and be engaged over an edge of the fabric to be tagged and bent with the lap folding of the fabric upon itself tucking the hook of the clip'within the folds of the fabric, attaching the tag without pricking the goods. These tags are used for classes of merchandise which would be injured or damaged by the use of a pin type of fastener which usually pierces through the goods for attaching the tag.

V The present method relates to the method of anchoring the wire clip endswholly within the interior of the tag body or between ply layers thereof, so as to completely enclose or.

imbed the clip ends within the tag. Under the prevailing methods the clip is secured to the tag by crimping the ends of the clip through the tag material and clinching the same, leaving the ends of the clip exposed or adapted to be wedged outwardly so that they will protrude from the tag and be in a position to readily prick into the fabric and cause in ury or damage thereto.

It is, therefore, an object of the invention to secure the clip to the tag with the prong ends of the clip engaged into the body of 5 the tag or between ply layers thereof securely anchoring the clip within the tag material.

Another object of the invention is to provide a tag of plural ply having a fold edge from which the clip fastener extends forming an overlap for the ends of the clipanchored between the layers of the tag.

According to the present invention the prongs or limbs of the clip pierce the fold edge of a plural ply tag with the ends of the prongs engaged between the plys and bent to an angle or loop to increase its anchoring hold. The ends of the prongs are thrown out of line with the prongs at the points where theprongs pierce through the fold 5 edge of the tag. In providing the tag of plural ply and representedas' apiece of ma terial folded upon itself, manufacture of the tagj and the application of the fastener is: facilitated, for in'productiontagsare madef;

in stripflengths from tape material."

The. invention; in the -preferred form 5 is illustrated in the accompanying drawings;

iii which: I

Figurefl is'a" side elevation of a strip "length of tags.

cut from the striplength'.

Figur'eQis "a side" elevation of a single tag Figure'3 is a' view illustrating the tag" clip engagecfoverthe fabric edge'just prior to folding overthe edge ofthe fabric and clip."

Figure 4 is'a'yiew'showing'the tag in its attached position on thefabric;

Figure 5 is a sectional view taken on" line 5 5, 'F1'gure"2,' lll'ustratlngthe manner in folds of the tag. n

Referring'to the. drawings, 1 indicates a tag ont'icketrepresented asa plural ply made of a-paper stockof a' require d weight for the desired card thicknessor gauge. As the present inventi'on relates solely to the means or method employed for connecting-pr a n-,1

which the tag clip is" secured between the choringl a'wire cli '3 fastener to the tag the 7 description would{ e directed s olelyf to the tag. and its fastenerfas an article ofmanw factiire' rather than'fto the method of manufacture The tags are usually merchandi'sed' gang f t ip lffqrm, facilitating in the use'of the product in connection with. price" markinginia 'chines, although "the 'tagmay be featui ecljindividuallyl i 7 ikewise, the structure of the "clip represent severalf modifications or lembrac'e var'i'otisformss'o asto include 'thepresent commercial styles of clips, reference 'to the preferred form herein being merely used as an example of one. particular typeof clip with whiclr'the invention is incorporated.

The invention relates primarily to the means employed for anchoring the clip to and within the tag, so that its anchoring ends are completelyenclosedand securely engaged to .the tag and bound by the material of the tag.

This particular style of fastener leaves extion of the clip from the tag;

posedno point of a wire which could efi'ect injury or damage to the goods or 1n ury to anyone handling the goods.

l/Vith the tag represented as of plural ply I formed by folding the, material upon itself provides a fold edge 2 selected as the top or head edge of the tag from which the clip 3 extends. The clip is preferably formed'of a single length of soft or annealed wire easily folded or bent and in its normal .orvmere.

chandising form comprises a pair of limbs or prongs 4- in approximate parallel'arrangement with the endsofthe wire or limbs engaged through the fold edge 2 to l1e between the pliesof the tag ,Each end is'bent to aiscroll and in relative opposing directions to extend at an angle or lateral to the limbs. for increasing its fan- V Y choragehold with thetag material and be tweenthe plies thereof. The layers or plies of the tag areadhesively united for their entire area, thus binding the scroll convolutions and inv arecessed capacity Within the layers, rigidly securing the clip to the tag. Thefold reinforces the tag edge against bodily extrac- The limbs from the parallel disposition I V converge and are developed into a loop 5 extending inwardly to the tag and with a reach short of the length of the limbs to present ahook for engagement over the edge of the fabric to be ticketedi For securing the tag to the, fabric-after the cliplhas been engaged I .over'an edge thereof, the clip with the fabric c I is lap-folded, hitching the clip with thetag to the goods. The clip; however, can be of l 7 a type for-obtaining a friction hold similar i I mule clips used for fastening papers, or to any style of clip which would permit anchorageto' the-tag in themanner herein specified IHaving described my invention,I claim: i

' A tag, comprising,"a body of plural ply,- the material thereof folded-upon itself providinga fold edge, at one end-and the .plies adhesivelyunited, and a hook clip extending from the body ofthe tag to engageaboutthe materialtobetaggedandto'be folded hat; r the l pro ther materiali r saidclip having a pairof parallel prongs V: i I

engaged through the fold edge atfspaced points,'the ends thereof between the plies I vJ formed. into scrolls for anchoring the witness whereof, Ighereunto subscribe my name v I f 'FREDERICK'KOHNLEQ 

